Albemarle promotes Newbill

Albemarle Corporation, a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered and innovative specialty chemicals, has promoted George A. Newbill to executive vice president, manufacturing operations. With more than 40 years in the chemicals industry, Newbill is a respected leader with global expertise in virtually every aspect of the business including engineering, supply chain management and manufacturing. He began his career with Ethyl Corporation (Ethyl) in 1965 as a chemical engineer in the process design group and subsequently served in a broad range of technical engineering and operations positions at facilities around the world, playing a prominent role in establishing Albemarle’s leadership position after its spin- off from Ethyl in 1994. (August 6, 2007)